Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag

Jamie Lokier
2008-05-20T22:54:54Z

David Chinner wrote:
> > Why are we out of memory?
>
> Defragmentation is triggered as part of the usual memory reclaim
> process. Which implies we've run out of free memory, correct?

I don't think that's true on no-MMU. Defragmentation can be needed
often on no-MMU when there's lots of free memory, just in the wrong
places.

-- Jamie